Monthly Archives: October 2008

THE PAST IMPERFECT Who doesn’t remember Leon Levich? If there are three of you in a room, Leon tuned two of your pianos, and hocked you a chainick all afternoon about his own music and why it never gets played. Anyhow, he was at the latest “Chamber Music in Historic Sites” last Sunday, at the […]

TOO HOT TO HANDLE? My editors at Bloomberg News had suggested weeks ago that the following item would be worth my attention. I never asked why. I fulfilled my obligation last Tuesday with my usual celerity and dispatch. On Wednesday I was informed that my article – honorable though it was – was “totally off […]

A FURTHER NOTE ON THE UPCOMING WORLD’S END: URBANA, Ohio (AP) — A defendant had a hard time facing the music Andrew Vactor was facing a $150 fine for playing rap music too loudly on his car stereo in July. But a judge offered to reduce that to $35 if Vactor spent 20 hours listening […]